Every now and then, I like to take a chance on a movie, buy a DVD without actually seeing the movie first. Yeah, I know this isn't the smartest thing to do sometimes because there are a lot of crappy movies out there. Yesterday, I took a chance and bought DEAD BIRDS.

DEAD BIRDS was filmed in Alabama on a plantation and set during the Civil War. It's the simple story of a bunch of bank robbers hiding out on a plantation. Things, of course, don't go nicely for them. There's some bad stuff afoot, something evil has been called by the previous owner of the plantation. I'm not going to go into too many details because I don't want to give too much away. The "creatures" were creepy and there's a few jump scenes in the movie. The movie is slow at times, but does pay off. At times, it reminds me of THE EVIL DEAD, you know, before Sam Rami screwed it up (he sold out too much and too many times). But it also reminds me of HELLRAISER, of that feeling that there could be lots more here to this story (yeah, I know the HELLRAISER series has problems -- they skipped a fourth movie for example). I would love to see a sequel to DEAD BIRDS, but not a prequel because we know the story of what happened by just watching the first one. Just make another one.

One more thing, they used prisoners from some Alabama inmate reintegration program to help make DEAD BIRDS.

Ever since this whole time change thing, I've just been sleepy. Maybe this is my body's way of saying, "Stupid, time didn't change, just your clock." I wish we didn't do daylight savings time. It makes me feel like I've eaten turkey and drank lots of milk.

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